Jolie Wills has a Master of Science in cognitive psychology with expertise in psychosocial recovery in the wake of disaster. Wills is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the 2010-2011 earthquakes. Willsnow calls Denver home.
Wills works to build recovery capacity by packaging the learning from disasters to make disaster recovery a little easier for impacted communities and for those working to support them. She has studied the missing pieces that are needed to effectively sustain the supporters in the wake of disaster. Over the last decade, Wills has been involved in building recovery capacity and in supporting the supporters in disasters here in the U.S., in Australasia and the Pacific.
Wills is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos, and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.